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Purcell, at 58, has perhaps more respect and trust than any other member of the Faculty. He has taken his share of stands on the issues and yet never become deeply embroiled in internal Faculty politics.
Purcell did not graduate from Harvard (he's an alumnus of Purdue as is astronaut John Glenn, but Glenn's chances of becoming president of Harvard vanished when he fell in the bathtub during the Ohio Senatorial primary and broke his coccyx, making it virtually impossible for him to lead...
Should Purcell or someone like him (possibly Edwin O. Reischauer) become president, it has been strongly recommended that a man like Derek Bok be named to the new provost or chancellor position and groomed to take over when the president reaches retirement age.
The soundest conjecture has the Corporation selecting a man of intellectual distinction, with liberal polities, chosen from an academic community, preferably the Harvard community. Prominent names include Dean Derek C. Bok of the Law School, Dean Dunlop, Archibald Cox (though his role as negotiator with radicals might hurt more than...
The latest poll released by his principal challenger, state Rep. Hayes MeClerkin, shows Faubus with 40 per cent of the vote, McClerkin with 14 per cent, state Attorney General Joe Purcell with 11 per cent, and the rest with under five per cent. Almost 20 per cent were undecided, however...